THE LOCKED-OUT ENGINEERS.
By Telegraph,—Press Association,—Copyright. London, December IG. There is a prospect of an agreement being arrived at by the Engineers’ Conference regarding freedom of management, piecework and overtime. The chief difficulty is over the question of hours of labour. Speaking at Parkstono, in Dorsetshire, the Hon T. Brassey, the famous naval expert. said the employers ought to yield something to the engineers regarding the hours of labour. If they wore allowed reasonable freedom in tho management of thoir works he advised the masters to refrain from attacking tho principle of trade unionism.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3311, 18 December 1897, Page 3
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94THE LOCKED-OUT ENGINEERS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3311, 18 December 1897, Page 3
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